Highlights Despite seeming to appear out of nowhere, most great innovations are the culmination of years or even decades of work from multiple entities. Innovation strategy should be built around [...]
Highlights: The General Services Administration (GSA) founded the 10X program in 2017 to internally crowdsource ideas and new approaches. The GSA’s 10X program has been successful due to transparency, accepting [...]
Highlights Government innovation is being increasingly centered around data access, such as big and open linked data (BOLD). The Federal Data Strategy (FDS) is helping government agencies break down silos [...]
Highlights Innovation strategy requires a plan for scaling innovation. Building scaling processes into your innovation platform, like those created by IdeaScale, makes it easier to move pilot projects and department-scale [...]
Highlights Crowdsourcing is part of NASA’s innovation strategy, drawing on private and public organizations. NASA has launched a crowdsourcing initiative to help process the spectrometry data coming from rovers to [...]
Highlights Global packaging company Winpak noticed that its innovation outreach efforts were limited to those who were able to participate at specific times and places. There were also geographic and [...]
Highlights Innovation strategy needs to have a strong component of team building, as well as a process for developing, launching, and reporting on idea prototypes and pilot projects. IdeaScale’s Solution [...]
Highlights Innovation to help those with disabilities is needed to overcome policy, attitude, communication, and physical barriers. Many disabilities are invisible, with people laboring under them to live and work. [...]
One of the central curiosities of the COVID-19 pandemic is that innovation festivals have had to show some innovation themselves. In 2022, one fascinating theme we’ve noticed is what’s stuck. [...]
Highlights Change agents are individuals or groups who find and manage change across your organization. Change agents can be found inside your organization and among customers, vendors, and others you [...]